Being resourceful

An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.

An investigation looking at doing and undoing mathematical operations focusing on doubling, halving, adding and subtracting.

Ben has five coins in his pocket. How much money might he have?

Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?

Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?

This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.

Can you find all the ways to get 15 at the top of this triangle of numbers? Many opportunities to work in different ways.

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?